Umbrellas around the pool, are they helpful or dangerous?
I recently went on holiday to Majorca, and whilst I was there the weather was lovely; beautiful sunshine, heat with a bit of a breeze and a bright blue sky. It was perhaps the best hotel I have ever been to, it was incredibly clean, with amazing facilities. One of these was the pool.
Now, the heat was scorching, so much so that umbrellas were used to shield us from the sun rays. Usually I am all about having a bit of shade, because well, I’m quite pale. And I don’t mean just a bit pale with a tad of colour. No, I mean Snow White pale with no colour. Because of this, I burn quite easily ... just ask me about my back on our first day! Not pretty!
And so, I would prefer to be in the sun for a few hours and then the shade, but it was a dangerous game to play in Majorca.
I’m just sitting by the pool, with my family, reading a book when it seems like hurricane season. The wind picks up out of nowhere and things start moving. Inflatables, ice cream signs, and the brollies. The wind was so strong, that the brollies, that were stuck in their stands, suddenly went for a fly.
Some of the brollies were put up quite high, so it’s understandable that strong winds managed to move them, but the short ones? I don’t know, maybe they felt left out!
These flying brollies do protect us from the sun, but what can protect us from them? My sister and a baby, peacefully sleeping, both nearly got skewered, on two different occasions, by these brollies, whilst my dad was playing catch the brolly. Thankfully, my sister took a visit to the pool toilets at that point and the baby was saved by their mum so no one was hurt. The only thing is the brollies went flying again the next day.
So our choice was either put on loads of sun cream or risk becoming a brolly BBQ! Thankfully I didn’t become part of a BBQ but I didn’t tan much either!
But I wasn’t too badly sunburnt or skewered, so that was a highlight of the holiday!
Until next time......